Oh, wait, here it is. The first Jimmy Carter moment, as Obama's peanuts come home to roost. What makes this moment so heartwarming is that he hasn't even been inaugurated yet.


So, the first Great March Forward Step, mandatory student activism, has turned into his first Jimmy Carter moment. No more mandatory volunteer work.


The website change.gov has quietly been changed. Please provide your own Hope and Change joke.


Anyway, while we're on Jimmy Carter moments, the time has come for conservatives to daydream about what a hypothetical president would do to help ensure that the Obama presidency has at least some incentive to be somewhat clean. Alas, those of us Bush supporters that nonetheless bash his idiotic, turn the other cheek method of passive blame acceptance know these options will never happen. Hey, if Clinton could pardon donors on his last day of office and lower the arsenic guidelines past the point of diminishing returns so that Bush had to change them, why can't Bush do these things.



*Appoint U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois Patrick Fitzpatrick as a special prosecutor so he can pursue his investigation of Tony Rezko and his corrupt dealings with Illinois's governor and other creatures and spoilsmen of the Daley Machine. This will make it politically difficult for a President Obama to pardon Mr. Rezko and impossible for him to terminate Mr. Fitzpatrick as a federal officer come January 21 as a way of de-railing this investigation.


* Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate ACORN's voter registration methods and its dealings with the Obama campaign.


* Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Obama campaign's on-line fundraising operation, including its disabling of the credit card security software on its on-line donations system. File a complaint with the Federal Election Commission regarding same.


* Appoint a bipartisan (love that word!) presidential commission to review the candidates' fundraising in this election cycle and to recommend changes in federal election laws.


Would the One dare to fire "the prosecutor's prosecutor" Fitzgerald?